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A well-known conjecture of De Giorgi -- motivated by analogy with the Bernstein problem for minimal surfaces -- asserts the rigidity of monotone solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$, with $d\leq 7$. We establish close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Enric Florit-Simon

We study the gradient flow of the Allen-Cahn equation with fixed boundary contact angle in Euclidean domains for initial data with bounded energy. Under general assumptions, we establish both interior and boundary convergence properties for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Kobe Marshall-Stevens , Mayu Takada , Yoshihiro Tonegawa , Myles Workman

We consider the equation $\e^{2}\Delta u=(u-a(x))(u^2-1)$ in $\Omega$, $\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} =0$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth and bounded domain in $\R^n$, $\nu$ the outer unit normal to $\pa\Omega$, and $a$ a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Fethi Mahmoudi , Andrea Malchiodi , Juncheng Wei

In this paper we study a convection-reaction-diffusion equation of the form \begin{equation*} u_t=\varepsilon(h(u)u_x)_x-f(u)_x+f'(u), \quad t>0, \end{equation*} with a nonlinear diffusion in a bounded interval of the real line. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Alessandro Alla , Alessandra De Luca , Raffaele Folino , Marta Strani

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus

We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we investigate a system coupled by nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Allen-Cahn equations describing a diffuse interface for two-phase flow of viscous fluids with different densities in a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yinghua Li , Wenlin Ye

Phase-field model is a powerful mathematical tool to study the dynamics of interface and morphology changes in fluid mechanics and material sciences. However, numerically solving a phase field model for a real problem is a challenge task…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We extend the recent rigorous convergence result of Abels and the second author (arXiv preprint 2105.08434) concerning convergence rates for solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation with a nonlinear Robin boundary condition towards evolution by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Sebastian Hensel , Maximilian Moser

We minimized the interface diffuseness in the phase-field models by introducing the parabolic double-well potential and localizing the solute redistribution (or latent heat release) into a narrow region within the phase-field interface. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Seong Gyoon Kim , Won Tae Kim , Toshio Suzuki

In this note, we consider a nonlinear diffusion equation with a bistable reaction term arising in population dynamics. Given a rather general initial data, we investigate its behavior for small times as the reaction coefficient tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-21 Matthieu Alfaro , Danielle Hilhorst

We analyze a diffuse interface model for multi-phase flows of $N$ incompressible, viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities. In the case of a bounded and sufficiently smooth domain existence of weak solutions in two and three space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti

In this paper, we present a novel interface-driven adaptive variational procedure using a fully Eulerian description of fluid-structure interaction. The proposed fully-Eulerian procedure involves a fixed background unstructured mesh on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

We investigate the Allen-Cahn system \begin{equation*} \Delta u-W_u(u)=0,\quad u:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2, \end{equation*} where $W\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^2,[0,+\infty))$ is a potential with three global minima. We establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Nicholas D. Alikakos , Zhiyuan Geng

We study irreversible A-B reaction kinetics at a fixed interface separating two immiscible bulk phases, A and B. We consider general dynamical exponent $z$, where $x_t\sim t^{1/z}$ is the rms diffusion distance after time $t$. At short…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben O'Shaughnessy , Dimitrios Vavylonis

This paper is concerned with the large time behavior of the Cauchy problem for Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system describing the interface motion of immiscible two-phase flow in 3-D. The existence and uniqueness of global solutions and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Yazhou Chen , Hakho Hong , Xiaoding Shi

We propose a generalized diffusion equation for a flat Euclidean space subjected to a continuous infinitesimal scale transform. For the special cases of an algebraic or exponential expansion/contraction, governed by time-dependent scale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-17 Manuel Schrauth , Maximilian Schneider

The parabolic Allen-Cahn equation is a semilinear partial differential equation linked to the mean curvature flow by a singular perturbation. We show an improved convergence property of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation to the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Huy The Nguyen , Shengwen Wang

This paper is concerned with a diffuse interface model for the gas-liquid phase transition. The model consists the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with van der Waals equation of state and a modified Allen-Cahn equation. The global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Qiaolin He , Ming Mei , Xiaoding Shi , Xiaoping Wang